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In the Brooder
- May 4, 2019
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Hello all,
We have 18 day old ducklings (2) and goslings (4). By the time my husband noticed the girl duck wasn’t breathing and she was already gone, and while trying to stimulate her to see if he could possibly save her the boy duck started having labored breathing too. Within 30 minutes both ducks had passed. We noticed yesterday that the skin on the goslings’ legs and feet had started to peel (what seemed like a normal growing side affect) but this morning the peeling skin looked a lot more irritated and some had even developed tiny blisters. It looks painful and today they are all moving around very slowly. We covered their chip-bed with towels for a softer, more forgiving surface. They have been on a diet of starter crumbles, pellets, spinach, grass, and grit, as well as water with broiler booster. We picked up some flock raiser crumbles today thinking maybe we were giving the wrong starter crumbles/pellets, got new feeders to prevent fecal matter from getting into their water and food feeders. We had been giving them water time daily, but I’m not sure if it was excessive in time for them.
Today we cleaned their legs and feet with antiseptic and covered them with bacitracin. We went out to get more ointment and to get kale to replace the spinach as we read some issues can arise from the high acidity, and upon arriving home we saw our littlest girl gosling had also passed.
This is such a strain on our hearts and our minds, as we don’t understand what is going on. We read ducklings are much more finicky with being raised, needing to be in totally clean and dry environments and they have more difficulty cleaning themselves. We have had goslings before that had no problems whatsoever, but I am so concerned now for the remaining two boys and girl. The boys are standing and slowly walking, eating and drinking, the girl is drinking but reluctant to eat. I just don’t know what else to do or how we can help. We have googled everything under the planet and it feels a lot like Web MD. Everything could happen to these littles.
Anyone else experience anything else this? We’re are such a loss, our hearts are breaking, and I want to make sure the remaining three still have a chance.
We have 18 day old ducklings (2) and goslings (4). By the time my husband noticed the girl duck wasn’t breathing and she was already gone, and while trying to stimulate her to see if he could possibly save her the boy duck started having labored breathing too. Within 30 minutes both ducks had passed. We noticed yesterday that the skin on the goslings’ legs and feet had started to peel (what seemed like a normal growing side affect) but this morning the peeling skin looked a lot more irritated and some had even developed tiny blisters. It looks painful and today they are all moving around very slowly. We covered their chip-bed with towels for a softer, more forgiving surface. They have been on a diet of starter crumbles, pellets, spinach, grass, and grit, as well as water with broiler booster. We picked up some flock raiser crumbles today thinking maybe we were giving the wrong starter crumbles/pellets, got new feeders to prevent fecal matter from getting into their water and food feeders. We had been giving them water time daily, but I’m not sure if it was excessive in time for them.
Today we cleaned their legs and feet with antiseptic and covered them with bacitracin. We went out to get more ointment and to get kale to replace the spinach as we read some issues can arise from the high acidity, and upon arriving home we saw our littlest girl gosling had also passed.
This is such a strain on our hearts and our minds, as we don’t understand what is going on. We read ducklings are much more finicky with being raised, needing to be in totally clean and dry environments and they have more difficulty cleaning themselves. We have had goslings before that had no problems whatsoever, but I am so concerned now for the remaining two boys and girl. The boys are standing and slowly walking, eating and drinking, the girl is drinking but reluctant to eat. I just don’t know what else to do or how we can help. We have googled everything under the planet and it feels a lot like Web MD. Everything could happen to these littles.
Anyone else experience anything else this? We’re are such a loss, our hearts are breaking, and I want to make sure the remaining three still have a chance.
